Description
- Pigment: PB 29, PBr 7 | Series 2Lightfastness: I – Excellent Transparency: Semi-Transparent Staining: 2-Low Staining Granulation: Granulating Jane’s Grey is a unique color in the market. Most grays, whether Payne’s Gray,
- Neutral Tint or others, are made with a black pigment, and often phthalo blue is included.
- Artist Jane Blundell wanted a gray without the often-dulling effect of a black pigment, and without the staining effects of phthalo blue.
- She wanted a gray that was liftable and granulating to create the lovely look of stormy skies and softened shadows.
- It will also work as a neutral tint, darkening colors without changing them.
- Using a gray that is made with palette colors maintains color harmony in an artwork.
- Many artists mix ultramarine blue and burnt sienna as they work, but no one was making this gorgeous mix as a convenience color, so she did to make it easy to create rich darks with ease.
- Initially she mixed it in individual pans and palettes but the demand from her students meant she started to make it in tubes.